Showing posts with label toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toys. Show all posts
Friday, December 16, 2016

Review: Garmin Tempe Sensor

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The Garmin Vivoactive HR has every sensor the Edge 800 or Fenix 3 HR has except for the temperature sensor. I'm sure some of it is co...
Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Review: Snapcircuits Rover

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Bowen liked the Snapcircuits Arcade kit so much that there are days when he wakes up at 6:00am and asks to do projects. So when the Snapcir...
Thursday, December 01, 2016

Review: Snap Circuits Arcade

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I grew up with legos here and there, but never got obsessed with them the way some people did. The dedicated kits that are now popular also ...
Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Review: Amazon Echo

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The Amazon Echo was just announced for general availability today, so it's appropriate for me to write a review for our device, which w...
Monday, June 01, 2015

Garmin Live Tracking

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The Vivoactive has a cool feature that I didn't realize about in my initial review.  It turns out that you can enable Live Tracking on...
Thursday, May 28, 2015

Review: RAVPower 3200mAh external powerbank

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I'd come to realize that my RAVPower 10400mAh was really overpowered for daily use. It's great on boats where I need enough power f...
Monday, May 18, 2015

Review: Vivere Double Hammock with Steel Stand

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I've long enjoyed the idea of having a hammock around in the home, but never had any place around to hang it, either in the form of tree...
Friday, February 20, 2015

My Color Rant

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Like 8% of men , I'm color blind. In normal day to day life, this isn't much of a disability. For instance, traffic lights are desig...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Returning to the Xperia Z1

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I broke my Xperia Z1 in mid December, and shipped it back to Sony for a warranty repair. Not knowing if I was going to ever get it back (So...
Saturday, December 27, 2014

Review: HP Stream 7 Tablet

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A fall from the couch destroyed the screen of our 2 year old Nexus 10. You can't easily repair tablets, so we needed a replacement. Our ...
Friday, December 26, 2014

Review: Garmin Vivofit Fitness Tracker

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Fitness trackers are strange devices for me. On the one hand, the intended audience is meant for the people who aren't very fit trying t...
Wednesday, December 24, 2014

First Impressions: Fire TV Stick

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As mentioned in the PS4 review , one advantage of the PS4 is that you can use a PS Vita to stream a game while someone else uses the TV to...
Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Trains for Toddlers

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Bowen is a train fanatic. He says so himself, and I'm not sure I can disagree. The big problem with train sets is that there's an an...
Monday, September 29, 2014

Review: Able Brewing Disk for Aeropress

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Steve Grimm raved about the Able Brewing Disk for Aeropress , and I liked the idea of  not using disposable paper filters for each cup of ...
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Review: Airscape Coffee container

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I'm too lazy to grind coffee, so tend to buy Costco's Peet's pre-ground coffee at 36 ounces for $13. But I don't drink more...
Friday, September 12, 2014

Review: Magnector X vs E-Prance

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The Xperia phones look nice and work as well as I expected, but nightly charging required that you pry off the micro-USB flap and then snap...
Sunday, September 07, 2014

Xperia Phone Protection Solutions

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If there's one thing I learned after buying the Dell Venue 8 Pro, is that you can't buy portable electronics with screens on them wi...

Review: Sony SBH52

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I've had several bluetooth headsets, including the MW600 and the Knivio over the years, but my wife has never showed interest in any o...
Friday, September 05, 2014

Review: LG 60PB6900 60" 1080p 3D Plasma TV

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I don't watch TV much, but I do play video games, and my son streams videos from Amazon Instant Video. My wife and I would watch more mo...
Wednesday, September 03, 2014

First Impressions: Xperia Z1, Z Ultra Phones

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I impressed by the T-mobile international roaming plan . Coupled that with the fact that if you put a lot of people on a family plan, the co...